07/06/2013: Keynote speaker, “Once upon a time, and a space: Building interdisciplinary and international research collaborations across the humanities, social sciences and sciences”, Keele University UK.

22/11/2010: “Phylogenetic Analyses and New trends in Cultural and Evolutionary Anthropology”, Colloquium “Life sciences, technologies and Imaginaries”, University of Coimbra, Portugal.

21/06/2012: “Frog Kings and Other more Ordinary Frogs: why there is nothing heartless about being cold-blooded”, The Grimm Brothers Today Kinder- und Hausmärchen and Its Legacy, 200 Years After, IELT, NOVA FCSH, Lisbon, Portugal.

19/02/2009—21/02/09: “Undermining the Masculine Self in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss: Tom Tulliver and the Darwinian Inheritance”, APEAA 30th Annual Conference “Self, Memory and Expression”, University of Porto, Portugal.